Janet Stanley of Stonington, Me. (population 700),
a port town on the southern tip of the island, had just
turned on her TV set to watch President Clinton's
State of the Union speech. As she entered the bathroom,
she "was startled by an immensely bright blue light that
came through the miniblinds on her west-facing window."
Opening the blinds, "she saw the western sky filled with
a deep bright blue (glow) with yellow vertical streaks
resembling lightning strikes."

Nine miles to the north, in Little Deer Isle, Me.,
"Seth Harkness was watching the speech...at ten minutes
after nine (9:10 p.m.) when a blinding white light came
through the east-facing windows of his living room."

In St. Agatha, Me., Pam Pelletier was taking her dog
for a walk when she "began hearing a series of huge sky
explosions, maybe 7 or 8 of them." The incident took
place at 7:30 p.m.

At 9:10 p.m., Grace Ouellette was at her home near
Long Lake in Madawaska, Me. (population 3,653), a town
on the Canadian border approximately 215 miles
(344 kilometers) north of Bangor when she spotted
"a large orange ball with white flashing lights." At first
she thought it was a small plane about to crash at the
airport in nearby Frenchville (population 475).

Across the St. Johns River, in St. Francois de
Madawaska, New Brunswick, Canada, Roger Bard
"reported that he had seen a ball of fire go down on the
American side of the river. 'It did not look like a falling
star,' he said."

St. Francois de Madawaska is 213 miles
(341 kilometers) northwest of Fredericton, capital of
New Brunswick province.

In Millinocket, Me. (population 6,922), a small city
69 miles (110 kilometers) north of Bangor, Ellen Cousins
"said she saw a bright orange streak as she looked
north at 7:30 p.m."

Evelyn Robinson was driving on Interstate Highway 95
from Houlton (population 5,627) to Island Falls
(population 650) at 9:30 p.m. when she "spotted a huge
blue-green light streaking from east to west and leaving
sparks behind."

"Robinson said, 'It was very fast, falling to the ground
at a 45 degree angle. It was very startling and unnerved
me a bit.'"

In Oakland, Me. (population 3,510), located on Maine
Highway 11 about 60 miles (100 kilometers) north of
Bangor, local police Officer Rick Stubbert "received a
report of something falling from the sky into McGrath
Pond...and planned to send divers out on Friday."

Elsewhere in Oakland, Kelly Sirois and her father,
Ron Sirois, "heard loud explosions at 8:30 and at
10:30 p.m. that caused both to think that something
had impacted with their house."

UFO phenomena were also reported in Deer Isle,
six miles (10 kilometers) north of Stonington, and in
Lincoln, Me. (population 3,399), a town on Highway 6
approximately 49 miles (78 kilometers) north of Bangor.

(See the Bangor Daily News for January 30, 1998,
"Witnesses see fireball in sky near Madawaska" and
"More witnesses report seeing bright-colored county
fireball." Many thanks to Gordon J. Gianninoto for
these news stories.)

(Editor's Comment: Well, I guess we know what
Stephen King's next novel is going to be about.)

MORE UFO SIGHTINGS NEAR
PENSACOLA, FLORIDA

A spherical silver UFO appeared repeatedly
over the Florida panhandle and southern Alabama
and was seen by dozens of eyewitnesses.

In Gulf Breeze, Fla. (population 5,530), a resort
town seven miles (11 kilometers) south of Pensacola,
columnist Carole Baker of the Pensacola Beach
Islander was driving on Shoreline Road at 6:35 p.m.
on January 31, 1998 when she saw "not one but two
bright red objects low on the horizon to the east."

Ms. Baker kept the objects in view for 90 seconds,
adding, "The two red objects had a distinctive shape.
Each central, large, ruby red light had adjacent to it
on either side one smaller red light...This was
suggestive to me of a ring-shaped configuration
which we have witnessed in this area many times
before."

On Thursday, February 5, 1998, Vicki Lyons of
Pensacola, Fla. (population 58,165) experienced a
strange compulsion at 2:30 p.m. "I suddenly
without any real reason began to think that I should
leave earlier."

Getting in her car, Ms. Lyons drove west on
Interstate Highway 10 into Alabama. As she neared
Elsanore, Ala. 16 miles (26 kilometers) west of
Pensacola, "All of a sudden, I watched streaking
across my windshield to the southwest a perfectly
round silver ball, so silver it looked like a sterling
silver perfect 'marble' in the sky."

Ms. Lyons told CNI News that the UFO "looked
like an aspirin held at arm's length" and was about
one mile away "It contrasted sharply against the
cloudless blue sky. As I was looking at it and
pondering pulling off the interstate (highway), it
suddenly took off at tremendously fast speed and
crossed in front of me, over the interstate and off
to the north. The speed of the object was
indescribable! It was so spectacular that I screamed
in excitement when it flashed across in front of me."

On Saturday, February 7, 1998, Christie Edwards
of Robertsdale, Ala., a town on Highway 90 about
27 miles (43 kilometers) southeast of Mobile,
videotaped the silver sphere as it hovered above
her house.

Two days later, on Monday, February 9, 1998,
the UFO returned to Robertsdale. Ms. Edwards said,
"It looks just like a bright light, but it's real big. And
it looks like nothing I've ever seen before...a small,
circular-looking silver object against a blue sky."

Fox Channel 10 TV aired the Edwards video
during their evening broadcast on February 9.

On Wednesday, February 11, 1998, Pat Crumbley
and her husband Buddy were driving on Interstate
Highway 10 in Milton, Fla. (population 7,216) about
16 miles (26 kilometers) northeast of Pensacola when
she spotted the silvery UFO.

"About 15 degrees off the horizon I saw a silver
ball-shaped object," Mrs. Crumbley reported. "About
one-half inch (one centimeter) in diameter at arm's
length." She was so startled that "it took a couple of
seconds to say, 'Buddy, look!' As he turned to look, it
just disappeared." (See CNI News, Volume 3, Number 24,
Part 1. Many thanks to Mike Lindemann of CNI News
for letting UFO ROUNDUP quote from his news story.
See also Filer's Files #6 for 1998. Many thanks to
George A. Filer of MUFON for the information.)

BLACK HELICOPTER STALKS
UFO OVER AN IOWA FARM

On Monday, February 2, 1998, at 10 p.m., Susan
Landers, 50, her daughter Melissa Edgewick, 27, and
son Michael Landers, 20 were at the family farm near
Sioux City, Iowa (population 80,505) about 200 miles
(320 kilometers) east of Des Moines when Melissa
"heard the sound of jets but did not see them." She
"then heard a high-pitched hum but did not locate
the source of the noise."

"Next a dark-colored helicopter came over their
house at less than 50 feet altitude. No markings were
observed. Very large motor," reported Beverly Trout
of Iowa MUFON, who interviewed the family.

"About 15 minutes later, the mother heard the
copter and stepped out onto her bedroom's second-
floor deck (balcony). The copter was overhead, and
she could see its bottom and could feel vibration in
the house."

Michael Landers, standing outdoors on the south
side of the house, "could feel the disturbance 'wind'
from the rotors. At first, the copter was right over
their house."

Susan Landers "described two white lights--one at
each end and a red light in the middle. Since she was
aware of the green light requirement on aircraft, she
specifically looked for a green light. There was none on
the copter."

"After the copter left, all three watched through
binoculars a bright orange ball move from the east to
the southwest and then to the northwest of their
residence. At one point, the ball stopped, then moved
back to the southwest."

A week later, on Monday, February 9, 1998, at
11:45 a.m., Mrs. Landers and another son, Todd, 33,
were driving to Sioux City when they saw a strange
object hovering about a half-mile away.

The UFO was "200 feet above a nearby hill" and
"perhaps at 500 feet altitude." Both witnesses
described it as "a rectangular 'refrigerator' shaped
object, perhaps a little smaller than a mid-sized car."

At first they thought they were "looking at the back
end of a helicopter, but they saw that it had no wings.
It was moving very fast and was a dull metallic gray
in color."

Todd Landers described the UFO "as a refrigerator
laying horizontal," while his mother described "some
sort of energy bands coming from the top and bottom
of the object, each had extended outward for about
one-third the size of the object."

The glow created a shimmering effect, which
Todd Landers described as "like looking through a fire."

Five days later, on Saturday, February 14, 1998,
Michael Landers and Melissa Edgewick were returning
home at 9:30 p.m. when they spied a UFO they
described as "a 40-foot triangle" hovering above the road.

The UFO "was at about a one-and-one-half telephone
pole in height" (33 feet or 10 meters--J.T.) above the road
with "three bright white flashing lights at each corner of
the triangle and a red light in the middle. The object
moved from the east side of the road to the west side,
and at one point the bright light from the object
reflected on the nearby trees." (Many thanks to
Beverly Trout of Iowa MUFON for these reports.)

TRUCKER VIDEOTAPES UFO
IN SOUTHERN NEW MEXICO

On Saturday, February 14, 1998, truck driver
Bill Sauter of San Diego, California was driving his
rig on Interstate Highway 10 near Deming, New
Mexico (population 10,970) about 100 miles
(160 kilometers) west of El Paso, Texas.

As he was listening to his CB radio, "he heard
talk about a strange object in the sky."

Since he always carries a video camcorder with
him, Sauter pulled off the highway and stepped down
from the cab. Spying the UFO over the desert, he
lifted his camcorder and began shooting footage.

"It just picked up speed and--woosh--it was gone,"
Sauter told Channel 10 TV news in San Diego." He
reportedly described it as "something out there that
was not a missile and wasn't a blimp. It looked like
a (Boeing) 747 but without wings."

Pictures of the UFO may be found at the San
Diego UFO Information homepage at this URL:
http://www.arroweb.com/n6rpf/sauter.html. (Many
thanks to Paul Cook for this news story.)

BLACK TRIANGULAR UFO
SPOTTED IN MICHIGAN

On Thursday, February 5, 1998, at 7:45 p.m.,
high school senior Greg Parkins, 18, was driving
through Howell, Michigan (population 8,184),
located 57 miles (91 kilometers) west of Detroit,
when he spotted a strange object in the sky.

He described the UFO as "a black triangular
object...heading west and paralleling Mason Road
and at an elevation of 55 to 60 degrees. Noted
that the object had three real white blinking lights
at the three points (corners) of the triangle."

Greg "pulled over to the side of the road to get
a better look" and estimated that "the object was the
size of a quarter held at arm's length...Although he
made a point of looking for them, no navigational
strobes--red, green or white--were seen at any time.
He estimated the speed of the object to be 60 miles
per hour." (See Filer's Files #6 for 1998. Many thanks
to George A. Filer of MUFON and Dave Parrish,
Michigan director of Skywatch International, for
this report.)

NEW UFO FLAP RATTLES
FOUR STATES IN AUSTRALIA

February was an active month for UFOs in the
southern hemisphere, as well, with a new flap in
Australia.

On Monday, February 9, 1998, at 9:50 p.m.,
"a dark triangular-shaped object with three
orange illuminations" appeared in the sky over
Geelong, Victoria (Vic.), a city 40 miles
(64 kilometers) west of Melbourne. Witnesses
reported that "it traveled very slowly, slower than
an aircraft would fly" toward the Yan Yang Mountains
northwest of Geelong.

Also, at 9:50 p.m. that night, in Blackwood,
South Australia (S.A.), witnesses reported seeing
"a very bright ball of white light. It appeared to pass
across the sky at about 20 to 25 degrees above the
northern horizon, heading west or northwest of
Adelaide. Illumination flew straight and level."

On Wednesday, February 11, 1998, at 10:05 p.m.,
people in Toodyay, Western Australia (W.A.) near
Perth saw "an object or illumination" come from the
east and move to a stationary position near the
moon. "It came to a holding (hovering) position just
under the moon and changed colours. It then
moved southward and changed direction. It crossed
right overhead to the southwest of Perth in only
seconds."

Minutes later, the UFO returned from the southwest,
again flew over Toodyay and headed east. "It also
traveled extremely fast. As the object traveled overhead
the first time, it appeared to stop at one point--rise
sharply up, then drop."

Smaller lights appeared to revolve around the UFO.
A rumbling sound was heard following it. One witness
reported, "Animals in the area--cockatoos, gallah sheep
and dogs--were going crazy."

On Friday, February 13, 1998, at 9:22 p.m., witnesses
at Stones Corner in Brisbane, Queensland (Qnld.) "spotted
a bright point of light in the northern sky." As they watched,
the UFO "exploded" into a bright circle of light that remained
for several seconds. "The exploded illumination appeared
to be the size of an orange at arm's length. It also did
appear to have an orange-red glow" that "was very bright
in the center."

The same Friday night, at 9:35 p.m., witnesses in
Elstenwick, Vic., a suburb of Melbourne "sighted a
navy blue or black disc-shaped object hovering to the
northwest...The object looked like a Second World War
British battle helmet and it moved from side to side"
as it flew. Witnesses had the UFO in view for five or
six minutes.

On Saturday, February 14, 1998, the black disc
appeared again, this time over Queensland's Gold Coast.
The UFO, which "appeared to be a solid functioning
object, flew over at about 1,000 to 1,500 feet (altitude.)
This disc-shaped object heading due north and flew
on a straight and level course, its speed was slower than
a commercial airliner and was only sighted for one to
two minutes before disappearing."

On Sunday, February 15, 1998, at 9:45 p.m.,
witnesses in the St. Mary's section of Sydney, New
South Wales (N.S.W.), Australia's largest city,
"saw two very bight orange fireball illuminations
crossing the sky underneath cloud" at about 3,600
feet altitude. The UFOs came from the direction
of the RAAF Richmond air base "and they were
heading towards Liverpool or the (Australian) Army's
Hollsworthy base." (Many thanks to Ross Dowe of
the Australia-New Zealand National UFO Hotline
for these reports.)

SAUCERS CONVERGE ON
NORTHERN BRAZIL

Disc-shaped UFOs overflew Fortaleza, the largest
city in Brazil's Ceara state, and its suburbs three
times on Monday, February 16, 1998.

Fortaleza is 1,760 kilometers (1,100 miles) north
of Rio de Janeiro.

At 7:30 a.m., Neil Oliveiras Chagas spotted "a
white object in the form of two inverted trapezoids
with rounded edges and two blue lights." Oliveiras
Chagas, an electrician by trade, grabbed his video
camcorder and shot footage of the UFO.

According to Sr. Athayde, he "saw another object
in the sky of Centro, crossing the Rua Barrio de Rio
Branco and the Rua Pedro Pereira. The object was
very big, with a spherical form," moving first to the
south and then heading east. It was last seen
flying east over the South Atlantic.

A disc-shaped OVNI (Portuguese acronym for UFO)
also appeared over the suburb of Cambeba, where it
was videotaped by a TV crew from Verdes Mares.

At 6:30 p.m., "a luminous white point" was seen
overhead in Varjota, another suburb of Fortaleza.

Saucers were also reported in Papicu, Messejana,
Parangaba and Barru de Ceara, all districts of
Fortaleza.

Later in the evening, "an object of discoidal form"
was seen flying towards the South Atlantic from the
beach at Praia do Futuro.

CHILE TV NETWORK AIRS
VILLARICA UFO VIDEO

On Saturday, February 14, 1998, Television
Nacional de Chile (TVN) aired an amateur video
of a UFO encounter that took place last
November.

On November 24, 1997, Vicente Constant, 26,
and his family were driving to the Andes on
vacation. They planned to visit Villarica volcano,
a tourist attraction 688 kilometers (430 miles)
south of Santiago de Chile, the national capital.

As they neared the volcano, Vicente took out
his camcorder and began shooting footage of the
Chilean countryside. Although they were in the
Andes at a relatively high altitude--1,600 meters
(5,280 feet, same as Denver, Colorado--J.T.), he
reported, "Suddenly we began feeling a heavy
pressure in the air."

"While moving the camera around (from the
windshield to the right front window), just above
the volcano appeared a cigar-shaped object that
went from the upper right of the (view) screen to
the left part. Then the object suddenly made a
turn and took off, heading toward the upper left
part of the screen. The scene seemed like a UFO
entering Earth's atmosphere and then flying off.
This object left no trail."

The videotape is being examined by Dr.
Rafael Vera Mege of the University of Concepcion.
A request to view and examine the tape has been
made by Agrupacion de Investigaciones Ovniologicas
(AION), Chile's famous UFO study group. (Muchas
gracias a Luis Sanchez Perry para esas noticias.)

from the UFO Files...1942: ARMY GUNNERS FIRE AT UFOs OVER LOS ANGELES

On Wednesday, February 25, 1942, at precisely 2 a.m.,
diners at the trendy Trocadero club in Hollywood were
startled when the lights winked out and air raid sirens
began to sound throughout greater Los Angeles.

"Searchlights scanned the skies and anti-aircraft
guns protecting the vital aircraft and ship-building
factories went into action. In the next few hours they
would fire over 1,400 shells at an unidentified, slow-
moving object in the sky over Los Angeles that looked
like a blimp, or a balloon."

Author Ralph Blum, who was a nine-year-old boy
at the time, wrote that he thought "the Japanese were
bombing Beverly Hills."

"There were sirens, searchlights, even antiaircraft
guns blamming away into the skies over Los Angeles.
My father had been a balloon observation man (in the
AEF) in World War One, and he knew big guns when
he heard them. He ordered my mother to take my
baby sisters to the underground projection room--our
house was heavily supplied with Hollywood
paraphernalia--while he and I went out onto the
upstairs balcony."

"What a scene! It was after three in the morning.
Searchlights probed the western sky. Tracers
streamed upward. The racket was terrific."

Shooting at the aerial intruders were gunners
of the 65th Coast Artillery (Anti-Aircraft) Regiment
in Inglewood and the 205th Anti-Aircraft Regiment
based in Santa Monica. The "white cigar-shaped
object" took several direct hits but continued on its
eastward flight.

Up to 25 silvery UFOs were also seen by
observers on the ground.

Editor Peter Jenkins of the Los Angeles
Herald Examiner reported, "I could clearly see the
V formation of about 25 silvery planes overhead
moving slowly across the sky toward Long Beach."

Long Beach Police Chief J.H. McClelland
said, "I watched what was described as the second
wave of planes from atop the seven-story Long
Beach City Hall. I did not see any planes but the
younger men with me said they could. An
experienced Navy observer with powerful Carl
Zeiss binoculars said he counted nine planes in
the cone of the searchlight. He said they were
silver in color. The (UFO) group passed along from
one battery of searchlights to another, and under
fire from the anti-aircraft guns, flew from the
direction of Redondo Beach and Inglewood on the
land side of Fort MacArthur, and continued toward
Santa Ana and Huntington Beach. Anti-aircraft
fire was so heavy we could not hear the motors
of the planes."

Reporter Bill Henry of the Los Angeles Times
wrote, "I was far enough away to see an object
without being able to identify it...I would be willing
to bet what shekels I have that there were a
number of direct hits scored on the object."

At 2:21 a.m., Lt. Gen. John L. DeWitt issued
the cease-fire order, and the twenty-minute
"battle of Los Angeles" was over.

(See BEYOND EARTH: MAN'S CONTACT WITH
UFOs by Ralph Blum, Bantam Books, New York,
April 1974, page 68. See also the Los Angeles
Times, the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner and the
Long Beach Press-Telegram for February 25, 1942.
All newspaper quotes taken from "The Battle of
Los Angeles, 1942" by Terrenz Sword, which
appeared in Unsolved UFO Sightings, Spring 1996
issue, pages 57 through 62.)

(Editor's Comment: Maybe the gang at the Black
Vault could use the Freedom of Information Act to
get the Army's Situation Reports for February 25,
1942 for the 65th and 205th A.A. Regiments.
Wouldn't that be interesting reading!)

FUN UFO WEBSITES

A 1988 UFO photo is available at this site,
http://www.debshome.com/PilotsIncredibleSighting.html

Marianne Timmer of the Netherlands
reportedly shot a photo of a UFO over the
Olympic Games at Nagano, Japan last
week. Check it out at this URL:
http://members.xoom.com/marianne_timmer

Don't miss the San Diego UFO Information
homepage at http://www.arroweb.com/n6rpf/sauter.html

As always, there are plenty of things to
see at our parent homepage, UFOINFO.
Drop in at http://www.ufoinfo.com

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Today is the birthday (February 22, 1857)
of Heinrich Rudolf Hertz, who can rightly be
called the grandfather of radio, television and
the Internet. To say nothing of the way he
revolutionized the science of astronomy.
Happy birthday, Heinrich!

We'll be back next Sunday with more saucer
news from "the paper that goes home--UFO
ROUNDUP." See you then.

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